Ceritoturris pupiformis
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| taxon =Ceritoturris pupiformis
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| image_caption = Shell of Ceritoturris pupiformis (specimen at Natural History Museum, London)
| authority = (E. A. Smith, 1884)
| synonyms =
- Mangelia pupiformis (E. A. Smith, 1884)
- Mangilia callistephana Melvill, 1904
- Pleurotoma (Drillia) pupiformis E. A. Smith, 1884 (original combination)
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Ceritoturris pupiformis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.Bouchet, P. (2015). Ceritoturris pupiformis. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=719113 on 2017-01-16
Description
The length of shell attains 4⅓ mm, its diameter 1⅓ mm.
The shell is oblong, narrow and almost pupiform. Its color is white and slightly red at the apex. It contains 8 whorls of which two in the protoconch. The whorls increase but slowly and the last three are of nearly the same width. They are divided at the suture by a fine keel, and a double series of largish and rather acute tubercles surround the middle. The small aperture measures about ⅓ the total length of the shell. The outer lip is thin. The siphonal canal is very short and narrow.{{cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=E.A. |title=Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum |journal=Annals and Magazine of Natural History |date=1877 |volume=4 |issue=19 |pages=488–501 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19241774}} {{source-attribution}}
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Oman and in the Persian Gulf
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External links
- [http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00682f.pdf Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295].
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